Writing something is important when we feel that I got something to share, and I got something to write after probably a year or so. Being an existing Royal Enfield Customer (I own a 2016 - Thunderbird 350) I was invited by the company directly to experience a drive in their brand new launch "Parallel Twin 650 CC Motorcycle". I was like :icon_lolno:

However being an enthusiast I felt not to miss the opportunity and accepted the invitation to take the chance. They have sent me the details to meet the event.
Date: 22nd December 2018
Time (Chosen by me) : 12:00 PM
Venue: Embassy Boulevard (Here)
What was promised: A drive of 20 KM in Royal Enfield Interceptor 650

Reached in Time, I am a punctual person in most cases :d and reported the executive, the venue was looking attractive

Was waiting for my turn to come up, in between for the first time ever in my experience with RE, a person came and requested "Sir please have some breakfast while you are waiting", surprisingly the breakfast was delicious too.

Had the breakfast and waited for around 30 minutes further. While was waiting checked the Bikes in Display their, including the pictures for you all

Finally, my name was called and I went to the front, a Person (RE Official) came and explained the rules for the ride.

We will start in a group of 6 Riders (read invited riders)

A Guide will drive in front of us, and followed by all the riders, also will be a person in the last to ensure no one is left behind. No one can overtake the guide or can't be behind the person at the end. If anyone does the ride will be terminated there itself.

Initially, in the Boulevard road, the ride will be approximate ~40 kmph and once we hit the highway we will be doing ~80 kmph.

Again we are strict to follow traffic guidelines and no one is allowed to break any traffic rules.

I was a little bit disappointed to hear that 80 kmph mark, as I drove 40 KM in Bangalore traffic to have the ride of a Twin-Cylinder motorcycle made in India :d

Someone said time have a solution for everything, to my surprise our Group Guide was somehow realized that 80 kmph was not enough for some of the riders, so he didn't disappoint us.
The ride was about to begin another he just signed me "follow me"

We started with a "nice rumble" of the parallel twin engine, and as soon as we started I was vanished along with the guide in some seconds, about after a minutes we realized that no one is behind us and we stopped on the road with a smile, we did ~100 kmph in the small stretch of 1.2 km since start.

I was smiling in those some seconds itself to myself, am I driving a Royal Enfield? For those who do not know (in case) Specification of the motorcycle is as below.

While we waited rest all came in and we started moving towards Hyderabad Highway for the rest of the drive, we drove sedate to reach the highway and I was following the guide ensuring the rest team members are behind me. magic happened when we hit the highway, our guide just got vanished within 3~4 seconds in front of eyes and I was no way to hold back, was moving in 1st gear that time in 20 kmph at max, opened the gas as much as I thought an RE can handle in my so far RE experience, to my surprise it did way above my expectation and I was in 60+ in maybe just 2~3 seconds, WOW!!

Further pushed my bike to catch my guide and in no time reached 135 kmph and had a lot more gas to open, but he was in front of me, surprisingly no vibration. It was butter smooth and so responsive that i never thought an Indian Motorcycle can be. We continued another 5 km approximately and took a U turn.

The important thing I noticed

So grippy Pirelli tyres, fits the character of the bike perfectly

Amazing Braking performance

Fun to push Engine, accurate gear ration and clutch response.

Enough punch available in low & midrange all the way to the redline (red lines at 7500 RPM)

Superb ride quality

Retro looks ofcourse, Simple but usable.

It was really fun and I was so sorry to leave the bike behind to drive back home, they clicked some nice pictures of us and shared to us in the frame as well. Below is the picture clicked by the photographer.

Here is the technical specification published by RE so far, I am still thinking about those 15 minutes of my ride, the most beautiful 15 minutes in the last few years maybe.

I hope you enjoyed the reading, In case anyone have any comments, Please do let me know I will be glad to answer if I can.